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How to Recover A Bricked Android Phone

So you noticed that you bricked your Android phone. After flashing the ROM, installing a mod, tweaking a system file and taking other measures, now your phone don’t show up.

Don’t worry as this can be fixed, basis how your device is bricked. There are generally two types of bricks.

The soft brick – In this case, the device gets stuck on the Android boot screen, in a boot loop, or jumps straight to recovery. This kind of issue can easily be fixed.

The hard brick – In this case, your device gives no response when you turn it on. A hard brick is typically caused by things like trying to flash an incompatible ROM or kernel, and there’s normally no software solution for them. Hard bricks are very bad news, but fortunately they’re very rare.

The chances of soft brick are more common. While the variations in how various Android phones work make it difficult to get all-in-one solution for every instance of a soft brick, there are four general tricks one can try to make the device back to work.

Wiping data, then re-flashing a custom ROM

Disabling Xposed mods through recovery

Restoring a Nandroid backup

Flashing a factory image

Wipe Date and Reflash a Custom ROM

An improper flashing of custom ROM is one of the most common reasons behind the occurrence of soft brick.

Boot your device under custom recovery

Navigate your way to the Wipe option and choose Advanced Wipe

Check the box marked Data (you can wipe the system, ART cache, and cache again too), then Confirm

Re-flash your custom ROM

By wiping your data, performing a factory reset becomes more effective. However, you should be careful so that you don’t end up clearing your internal storage or SD card.

Deactivate Xposed Modules in Recovery

It is one of the best ways to mod your device but dangerous too. These modules are easy to install and available in the Play Store itself.

Use ADB push to install the Xposed Uninstaller

Download the Xposed Uninstaller to your desktop

Connect your phone to your computer via USB and boot into recovery

Launch the command prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Mac) and use the cd command to change the directory to where you have adb installed